A Fairy Tale Tribute and Some People of the Forest

Some more cards from the online Fairytale art-a-thon I mentioned last time, and submitted to the Illustration Friday topic, “Tribute”. These three dogs were inspired by a story from one of those large McCall’s Storybooks from the 60’s. In the story are the dog with eyes as big as saucers, the one with eyes as big as dinner plates, and the one with eyes as big as wagon wheels.

Then someone told me about an earlier story featuring the dogs, The Tinderbox, by Hans Christian Andersen – though instead of wagon wheels, the largest dog had eyes as big as windmills! The original story is a Scandinavian folktale.

This week I started a swap at illustratedatcs called The People of the Forest. It includes dryads, nymphs, forest pixies/elves/sprites, gnomes, fairies, antlered folk. The only requirements are 1. a humanoid of some sort and 2. vegetation of some sort. They are fun! Here’s the first four, finished in the last couple days in order to drum up interest in the swap. :)

What big & sad eyed pups but adorable-hope you had fun with the swaps!! Love,Mom PS We had to leave the house twice today-someone love it & wanted to come back to take photos & people are more @ ease when the owners aren’t @ home. We also found something we “fell in love with yesterday” but it has to wait until this one is a done deal!

I think you have used puppy dog eyes to seduce the viewer into… I don’t know where…but there should be a warning with these…Like: Puppy dog eyes can be dangerous..they may seduce you into…somewhere you didn’t think you where going to or a certain state of mind which you weren’t expecting. Do not drive after excessive puppy dog eyeing.